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As an admin of Simple Machine Forum, two things are important and have priority, one is to give your SMF forum an XML Sitemap, another is verify your web in Google Webmaster tools. Here you may find Sitemap mod, and it's quite handy to install this package. but one word for precaution, don't be confused by this sentence:  Google does not like SEF formatted URLs for the sitemap because it won't show the sitemap in the root directory just do as the author tells you, make a .htaccess file under your root directory, and copy & paste the rewrite rule into this file and click save. My forum system files are under root directory, so I made a minor change, from /forum/index.php?action=sitemap;xml to /index.php?action=sitemap;xml.  After doing this you can view your XML sitemap by the address http://games.dayabook.com/sitemap.xml , or you may have to use this address  http://games.dayabook.com/index.php?action=sitemap;xml The second thing is how to verify your forum in Google W...

All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority. All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can't tell which are more important. This is the warning that I get after I submited a PHPBB forums_map which includes 6 forums URLs, basicly I think they have the same priority. Incorrect namespace As I have mentioned in another post , I got this warning because my sitemap XML file root element doesn't specify the default namespace. The namespace should be specified as follows: xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" There may be more reasons you may see this error are: * the namespace may be missing * the namespace may be declared incorrectly (for instance, the namespace may end in ".9" rather than in "...

Google has its own Sitemap generator, but it's written in Python, it seems my webserver doesn't support python. I tried out a free php Sitemap generator, looks quite good. phpSitemapNG is a free Google Sitemaps generator written in PHP, but also generates RSS-based, txt-based and HTML-based sitemap files. It will spider your website and also your filesystem (of course, as you prefer). You can download and use it for free, the licence is GPL. I don't know if it's right to include .php files, since I use PHP/MySQL contents management system for my website, such as MKPortal, Wordpress, and Joomla. Will Google index .php file, or just ignore it?

There are many articles discussing how to add blogspot sitemap to webmaster tools. Most of those suggest adding a feed based sitemap atom.xml or rss.xml. This is not wrong, but very problematic, because feed based sitemap only lists 25 newest posts by default. So, I have heard many complaints that total indexing pages dramatically reduced after successfully adding a sitemap to Google webmasters tools To avoid this, you have to add the sitemap plus some parameters to the URL: "atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100" Here we add three parameters, the first and most important is specifying the maximum post, this gives the Google spiders additional content to examine. We can currently set the maximum posts to 500. So if just start blogging, 500 hundred posts could be enough for a year's job. Keep writing till you ass off! If your main concern is having Google index your freshest content, you can create a sitemap for a feed using rss.xml?ord...